This page contains the following lists of Penn faculty affiliated with our undergraduate and graduate linguistics programs:
- Linguistics core faculty who are members of the Department of Linguistics
- Associated faculty and lecturers, including faculty whose departmental appointment is outside Linguistics but who are members of the Graduate Group
- Retired faculty, former members of the department
You can find other faculty with linguistics-related interests through the Integrated Language Sciences and Technology (ILST) initiative.
Linguistics Core Faculty
![Portrait of Marlyse Baptista](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2023-01/MarlyseBaptista.jpg?itok=cJiUeQxD)
Marlyse Baptista
President's Distinguished Professor of Linguistics Language Contact and Cognition, Pidgins and Creoles, Theories of Language Emergence, Bilingualism, L2 and L3/Ln Acquisition, Syntactic Theory, Psycholinguistic Research on Processes of Language Contact (Ph.D., Harvard, 1997)
marlyse.baptista@sas.upenn.edu(215) 898-3212
Room 319-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio
![A headshot of Gene Buckley](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2019-11/Buckley.png?itok=hvkNedJc)
Eugene Buckley
Associate Professor Formal phonology, phonology-morphology interaction, phonological explanation, Native American and Ethio-Semitic linguistics (Ph.D., Berkeley, 1992)
gene@ling.upenn.edu(215) 898-2834
Room 330-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio
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David Embick
Professor Syntax, morphology, syntax/morphology interface, neurolinguistics (Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1997)
embick@ling.upenn.edu(215) 573-5965
Room 310-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio
![A headshot of Jianjing Kuang](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2019-11/Kuang.jpg?itok=8XMt5qFx)
Jianjing Kuang
Associate Professor Phonetics, Laboratory phonology, Speech production and perception. (Ph.D. UCLA, 2013)
kuangj@sas.upenn.edu215-746-3136
Room 318-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio
![Photo of Julie Legate](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/profile/images/JAL.jpg?itok=CBpvwGea)
Julie Anne Legate
Professor; Department Chair Syntax, morphology, syntax-morphology interface, language acquisition (PhD, MIT, 2002)
jlegate@ling.upenn.edu215-573-5192
Room 331-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio
![A headshot of Mark Liberman](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2019-11/Liberman.jpg?itok=cqV5Z1of)
Mark Liberman
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Linguistics Phonetics, prosody, natural language processing, speech communication (Ph.D., MIT, 1975) Director - Linguistic Data Consortium
Room 312-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio
![Rolf Noyer](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2019-11/noyer.jpg?itok=5S3k1tOr)
Rolf Noyer
Associate Professor Theoretical phonology, morphology, morphosyntax, generative metrics; Huave, Mansi. (Ph.D., MIT, 1992)
rnoyer@ling.upenn.edu(215) 573-9232
Room 329-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio
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Anna Papafragou
Professor Experimental semantics and pragmatics, language acquisition, language and cognition (Ph.D., University College London, 1998)
anna4@sas.upenn.edu215-746-8384
Room 328-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio
![A headshot of Don Ringe](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2019-11/Ringe.jpg?itok=k2R0cY5i)
Don Ringe
Professor Historical linguistics, Indo-European, morphology (Ph.D., Yale, 1984)
dringe@ling.upenn.edu(215) 898-7472
Room 332-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio
![Gareth Roberts](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2023-04/14Ebrill2023.jpg?itok=y1f1-ru7)
Gareth Roberts
Associate Professor Language evolution, language change, language variation, cultural evolution, experimental semiotics, social interaction. (Ph.D., Univ. of Edinburgh, 2010)
gareth.roberts@ling.upenn.edu215-746-1942
Room 317-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio
![A headshot of Kathryn Schuler](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2019-11/Schuler.png?itok=t23PIpbk)
Kathryn Schuler
Assistant Professor Language Acquisition (Ph.D; Georgetown University, 2017)
kschuler@sas.upenn.edu215-898-6909
Room 314C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio
![A headshot of Florian Schwarz](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2019-11/Schwarz.png?itok=MchSEmBS)
Florian Schwarz
Associate Professor; Undergraduate Chair Formal semantics and pragmatics, semantic and pragmatic processing (Ph.D., U Mass, 2009) Member of the Graduate Group in Psychology
florians@ling.upenn.edu215-898-8183
Room 311-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio
![A headshot of Meredith Tamminga](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2019-11/Tamminga.jpg?itok=BW5Nvt5I)
Meredith Tamminga
Associate Professor; Graduate Chair Language variation and change, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics. (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2014)
tamminga@ling.upenn.edu215-898-7473
Room 316-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio
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Charles Yang
Professor Language acquisition, language change, computational linguistics, morphology, psycholinguistics (Ph.D., MIT, 2000) Director of Undergraduate Studies in Cognitive Science
ycharles@ling.upenn.edu215-898-7849
Room 315-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio
Associated Faculty and Lecturers
![agha](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2019-04/agha.jpg?itok=jrDypvgD)
Asif Agha
Professor and Department Chair of Anthropology Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan linguistics; semiotics; discourse analysis; social theory (Ph.D. Chicago, 1990)
asifagha@sas.upenn.edu(215) 898-4110
University Museum, Room 511Read Bio
![Sunghye Cho Photo](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2023-07/Sunghye%20Cho.png?itok=rxT1ghwu)
Sunghye Cho
Assistant Research Professor
Linguistic Data Consortium
3600 Market Street, Suite 810Read Bio
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Aletheia Cui
Lecturer (PhD in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 2020)
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Delphine Dahan
Associate Professor, Psychology Psycholinguistics, spoken-language comprehension, lexical representation and processing (Ph.D., Paris La Sorbonne René Descartes, 1994)
dahan@psych.upenn.edu215-898-0326
Room 253, Levin Building
425 S. University Ave.
Philadelphia,PA 19104Read Bio
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Filipe de Salles Kobayashi
Lecturer (PhD in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023)
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Jami Fisher
Senior Lecturer (Ed.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2014) American Sign Language Program Director
jami@sas.upenn.edu215-746-5612
Room 345-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio
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Audrey Mbeje
Lecturer in Foreign Languages Director of the African Language Program at Penn
![A headshot of Gerald Prince](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2019-11/Prince.gif?itok=QGo48QPJ)
Gerald Prince
Professor, Romance Languages Narratology (Ph.D. Brown, 1968)
gprince@ling.upenn.edu215-898-8458
531 Williams HallRead Bio
![A headshot of Timothy Roberts](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2019-11/TRoberts.jpg?itok=Phz8qcZB)
Timothy Roberts
Adjunct Professor; primary appointment: Professor, Dept of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia neurolinguistics; neuroimaging; auditory processing of language; language and autism (Ph.D., Cambridge, 1991)
robertstim@email.chop.edu267-426-0384
Wood Building, Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaRead Bio
![A headshot of Beatrice Santorini](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2019-11/Santorini_0.jpg?itok=VvdEB0D1)
Beatrice Santorini
Senior Fellow Syntax, Germanic linguistics, language change (Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1989)
beatrice@sas.upenn.edu215 898-5829
Room 334-C, Third Floor, 3401-C Walnut St.Read Bio
![A headshot of Dan Swingley](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2019-11/Swingley.png?itok=U_o5UrjK)
Daniel Swingley
Professor, Psychology Psycholinguistics, word recognition and lexical representation in infants and young children (Ph.D., Stanford, 1997)
swingley@psych.upenn.edu215-898-0334
425 S. University Ave.Read Bio
![Tinney](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2019-04/tinney.jpg?itok=lon28oG0)
Stephen J. Tinney
Clark Research Associate Professor of Assyriology, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Sumerian; Mesopotamian language and literature. (Ph.D., Michigan) Director, Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary ProjectAssociate Curator, Babylonian Section, Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
stinney@sas.upenn.edu215 898-7467
Room 231, Babylonian Section, University MuseumRead Bio
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John Trueswell
Professor of Psychology Language processing, eye movements in reading, visual perception (Ph.D., Rochester, 1993) Director of Graduate Studies in PsychologyDirector of IGERT Language and Communication Program
trueswel@psych.upenn.eduOffice: (215) 898-0911; Lab: (215) 898-0327
Room 254, Levin Building, 425 S. University Ave.Read Bio
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Greg Urban
Arthur Hobson Quinn Professor of Anthropology Linguistic and cultural anthropology; metaculture; cultural motion; public sphere processes; world cultures; corporations and culture; business anthropology; Amerindian cultures; Brazil, U.S. (Ph.D. Chicago, 1978)
gurban@sas.upenn.edu215 898-0895
University Museum, Room 518Read Bio
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Scott Weinstein
Professor, Department of Philosophy Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Cognitive Science (Ph.D. Rockefeller University, 1975) Director, Logic, Information, and Computation Program, School of Arts and SciencesSecondary Appointments: Department of Mathematics, Department of Computer and Information Science
weinstein@cis.upenn.edu(215) 898-8563
Room 462, Logan HallRead Bio
Retired Faculty
![A headshot of George Cardona](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/2019-11/Cardona.jpg?itok=CYcBV70i)
George Cardona
Professor Emeritus, Linguistics and South Asia Studies Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indian grammatical theory
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Robin Clark
Professor Emeritus, Linguistics Applications of Game Theory to natural language; Evolution and Dynamics; General Stuff, (Ph.D., UCLA, 1985)
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William Labov
John H. & Margaret B. Fassitt Professor of Linguistics (Retired) Sociolinguistics, language change, speech perception and production, research on reading (Ph.D., Columbia, 1964)
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Mitch Marcus
Professor Emeritus, RCA Professor of Artificial Intelligence Natural language processing, corpus-based and statistical models for NLP (Ph.D., MIT, 1976)
mitch@cis.upenn.edu(215) 898-2538
503 Levine HallRead Bio
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Gillian E. Sankoff
Professor of Linguistics (retired) Sociolinguistics, pidgins and creoles, language change and development (Ph.D., McGill, 1968)